New Linux Installation Question

[Budge]

On 02/09/2015 09:04 PM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 9 February 2015 at 20:50, Budge <ajebay at errichel.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hi and thanks for the advice.  I had understood however that
>>
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 meant that user had write permissions.  I could of course change ownership but why have I not had this issue before?
> That says that the owner has write permission.  But who is the owner?
> ls -l /usr/local/bin/get_iplayer
> will tell you.
>
> Most likely the owner is root, as you probably used sudo to put the file there.
>
> Colin
>
>
Hi Colin,
Yes root is the owner.  File is in /usr/local/bin.  What is best/correct
approach, to give everyone permission, change it temporarily or change
ownership?
Budge